Crown Towers City of Dreams and Dream Play

One of our first summer activities was a staycation at the Crown Towers in City of Dreams.  We chose this hotel because they offered a family staycation package that included tickets to Dream Play for two adults and two kids. The kids were both excited. They love staying in hotels because this is their chance to swim in a pool.  This is actually the only time they can get to swim in a pool except if it's the small inflatable pool at home. They also wanted to go to Dream Play after seeing pictures of the place on the internet.

We left the house early and arrived at Crown Towers at around 10 o'clock in the morning.

We left early so that we can go to Dream Play while we wait for our hotel room to be ready since check-in is at 3 o'clock. We checked in then rode a golf cart to Dream Play since kids are not allowed to pass through the casinos.  Riding the golf cart was also a treat for them.

We got to Dream Play at around 10:30 am.  It was just the perfect time to arrive since there were still very few people inside. There were no long lines. It's like we almost had the whole place to ourselves.

We ate at Chez Gingy, the snack bar inside Dream Play.  The food was quite expensive. We ordered,fries, pizza, mac n cheese, burger with potato wedges and refillable soda.  The food was delicious except for the mac n cheese which Hailey ordered but did not eat because it tasted bad. I can't blame her. It's probably the worst mac n cheese I've tasted.

The kids had fun filling up their own soda which is something they can't do in any restaurant.

 We ate while waiting for our turn at the cookie making class. In between bites, they would go to the slides which were nearby.

We went to Cooking with Gingy next where the participants flattened the cookie dough with rolling pins then shaped it with a gingerbread man cookie cutter. They were given a ready made cookie which they were allowed to decorate with icing.

After the cooking class we went to the Dream Theater to watch the DreamWotks 4-D animated movie. Right after, the kids had ice cream with unlimited toppings.

While eating ice cream, Po passed by so the kids had the chance to get a picture with him.

We went to Whatever Floats Your Boat next where the kids assembled their own boat.  The downside was they did not have enough good parts, particularly the barrel shaped ones to make two good floating vessels. When the boats were placed in the river, the one with four barrels withstood all the obstacles while the other broke apart.

Griffin tried the Wall of Destiny.  He enjoyed it specially the part where he jumps down when he can no longer continue climbing.

We roamed around Shrek's Swamp Stomp.

Our last stop was the DreamStudio where you can make your own animated film. Taking pictures and videos are not allowed inside the DreamStudio.  By this time, our 4 hours was almost up so we decided to leave and look inside the DreamShop.

It was almost 3 o'clock.  We rode the golf cart back to the hotel.  Our room was ready and we were able to relax a bit.  I loved it that there were two queen sized beds in the room.  We did not need to squeeze ourselves into one king sized bed.

After resting a while, we went downstairs to swim in the pool.  The kids were really excited.  They always look forward to swimming whenever we check into a hotel.  There was a heated jacuzzi and a bigger pool which both had jets. The pool was big and there were not a lot of people around.

After swimming, we had dinner buffet at The Cafe inside Hyatt Hotel. The buffet had a great selection of food to eat. We were so full when we got back to the hotel room.

The next morning, we had breakfast at Crown Towers Crystal Lounge.  We were expecting the usual big breakfast buffet in hotels but was disappointed that breakfast was in a small lounge and had very few choices for breakfast.  There were some items included in the menu that you could order like tocino, pancakes or bacon. Our pancakes and tocino came in a short while but the bacon we ordered which I followed up 3 to 4 times came after a long long time just when about everyone else has left the lounge except us.  It seems they never followed it up with the kitchen except the last time I followed it up.  Really bad service for a 6 star hotel. My husband was very disappointed specially because he ordered the bacon.  He said we should have stayed at The Hyatt or Nobu Hotel.